COOLGARDIE AND OTHER DIGGINGS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1894, Page 3

COOLGARDIE AND OTHER DIGGINGS.

? INTERESTING COURT CASES. ANOTHEE BIG FIND. [Bt Tklegbaph.j (Our Own L'orretpondent.J [PER B.S. HAUROTO AT THI BLUFF. | HOBART, 20th August. A Coolgardio telegram, dated 17th Augußt, states that an interesting case Las ocenpied the attention of the Warden's Court. Ono Elliott sned his partnor, Carter, to obtain the specific performance of a contract to sell a one - sixth interest in the Londonderry Mine for .£3OOO. Both parties are among tho original prospectors of the claim, each holding a one -sixth interest. Elliott bought from Carter the whole of tho lattcr's interest at the figure mentioned, the money to be paid in one month from tho dato of the agreement. The sale was made before tho big discovery leaked out, and after tho mine created such a furore tho share was saleable at about .£15,000 to .£20,000. Elliott made a tender of the money, but Carter did not oomplote the eale. The Warden ordered the specific performance of the contract to sell. A peculiar case was decided by tho Wardon in regard to the forfeiture of a block adjoining the Londonderry Extended on the north. The block was taken up by parties who pegged out the ground on a Sunday. Subsequently the ground was pegged on a wpok.day. Tho caso turned on whether the pegging on Sunday was legal, the conten;ion being that as Sunday is a dies non no legal act could be performed. The Warden duoidod that Sunday peggicg was logal, and in favour of the first application for the ground. The mail from Drndos brings news of a sensational find, IS miles north of Dundas. Lawrenco Sinclair has come in and applied to the Warden for a 24-aore lease and reward claim. The specimens brought in run from 30oz to 50oz to the ton. An application has been put in for the forfeiture of Dunn's Woalth of Nations minn, on the ground of misdirection in the application for the site of the claim, it having been described as north of Coolgardio, when really it is north-west or north-north-west. The application is regarded as frivolous, and is exciting no attention. On Friday afternoon, 17th August, a largo number of prospectors returned from their search for the locality of tho 90-mile *uah. They were unable to find the exact place, but many of them reached the vicinity. H. Frost and party, alluvial men, have arrived at Coolgardie from Kurnalpi. Amongst the gold brought in by them is a nugget which weighs 4320z. This is the larg&st nugget yet obtained in these parts.